Archiving and Preservation Advisors Rebecca ClemanDirector of Distribution, Electronic Arts IntermixMona JimenezAssociate Director, Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program of New York University (MIAP)Dan StreibleDirector, Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program of New York University (MIAP)Lori ZippayExecutive Director, Electronic Arts Intermix

core research group

Ann Adachi-Tasch, Collaborative Cataloging JapanAnn Adachi-Tasch is Executive Director of Collaborative Cataloging Japan, a not-for-profit that supports preservation and archiving of Japanese historical and experimental moving image works. Ann has worked at The Museum of Modern Art where she managed projects for the Museum's global research initiative titled Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives (C-MAP), and contributed to the launch of its digital platform, post (post.at.moma.org). In 2009, she organized a touring screening program and publication of Japanese experimental video and film, Vital Signals at Electronic Arts Intermix, a video art archive and distributor where she was the Distribution Coordinator. Ann has given presentations and written about the status of media archiving in Japan, at The Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Tate Modern (London); Keio University Art Center (Tokyo); and the Archives of American Art (Washington D.C.), among others.

Julian Ross, International Film Festival Rotterdam / University of WestminsterJulian Ross is a Short Film Programmer at International Film Festival Rotterdam and Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Westminster. He holds a PhD from the University of Leeds researching Japanese expanded cinema. He has curated film programs at Eye Film Institute, British Film Institute and the Anthology Film Archives and he was an assistant curator for the touring program on the Art Theatre Guild of Japan. He has written for Sight and Sound, Film Comment, Bomb, Aesthetica Magazine and post (MoMA) and chapter contributions for Impure Cinema (I.B Tauris), Slow Cinema (Edinburgh University Press) and The Japanese Cinema Book (BFI).

Hirofumi Sakamoto, Wakkanai Hokusei Gakuen University (Wakkanai, Hokkaido)Hirofumi Sakamoto is Associate Professor at Wakkanai Hokusei Gakuin, Hokkaido, Japan. In 2006, Mr. Sakamoto organized the exhibition A Retrospective Exhibition of Early Video Art, in which he presented works by seminal Japanese video artists. He has been working with filmmaker Toshio Matsumoto to organize and digitize Matsumoto’s archive material and moving image works. He is founder and director of Japan Postwar Moving Image Archive (PJMIA).

Hiroko Tasaka, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (Tokyo)Hiroko Tasaka is Curator of Department of Moving Image at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography and has co-curated Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions since 2009. She worked for Processart Inc., managing the artist Fujiko Nakaya’s fog sculptures. She has also designed and produced projects related to the study of the intersection of art and science, the performances in the 1960’s and the 1970’s, as well as video arts. She has curated the following exhibitions: Spelling Dystopia(2012-13); Shiro Takatani Camera Lucida (2013-14), among other projects.

institutional collaborators

Japan:Postwar Japan Moving Image ArchiveNihon University College of ArtMori Art MuseumMeiji-Gakuin University

United States:Asia Art Archive in AmericaNew York University, Grey Art GalleryThe Museum of Modern Art, International Program, C-MAP programInternational House Philadelphia, Lightbox Film CenterPhiladelphia Asian American Film FestivalVox Populi Gallery

supporters

2015Japan Foundation New YorkPennsylvania Council on the Arts

2016Japan-U.S. Friendship CommissionPennsylvania Council on the Arts, Project Stream

2017Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Preserving Diverse CulturesAndy Warhol FoundationTerumo Foundation for Life Sciences and ArtsThe Philadelphia Cultural Fund